Run Mullvad browser in disposable

Made this one, take a look.

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Yeah, it’s really quite nice. For me another pleasant surprise was that Mullvad Browser is built and even signed by the Tor Project, so it’s not a downstream fork that could easily become outdated.

Just now I’ve added some example configuration for using it with Split Browser.

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Nice! Thank you for the links

thats amazing… thank you.

How to update this?

I’m probably missing something obvious but how do you update the mullvad browser in this situation?

You can’t just update it the way you can in a disposable where you can just run the browser in the disposable template and update it via the update button the same way as the Tor browser because when you do it shuts down.
I mean that if you run the browser from a terminal window every time then the disp vm doesn’t shut down because the terminal window stays open but if you start the browser on it’s own then when it shuts down as part of the update process it stays shut down, thus killing that disposable vm - so no update occurs.

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In case anyone’s interested I’ve done a bodge to get round this.
In the disposable template add this line:

cd <path_to_>mullvad-browser; ./start-mullvad-browser.desktop

At the end of the .bashrc file in the home directory.
Then when you launch the disposable’s terminal it automatically starts the Mullvad Browser.
So you can still update like normal in the disposable template.

It works fine except I get two instances of the browser not one with this error message:

bash: cd: Downloads/mullvad-browser: No such file or directory
Launching ‘./Browser/start-mullvad-browser --detach’…
[user@disp8364 mullvad-browser]$

Alternatively there is:

of course . . .